And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.

Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it.